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TomYi deleted his own post after others had contributed their efforts to this important subject.
In future we will safeguard against such damage to threads.
It is the policy of OPF to not remove photographers' professional posts, as this would be against the very purpose of this forum.
To make this thread coherent, here is my understanding, from memory of Tom's original very strong ideas that lead to this discussion.
Tom, who uses Photoshop Elements, I believe, and only to a limited extent, likes to get out from the cameras file the image with almost no "manipulation". I believe he uses Raw Shooter as his RAW processor. He feels extremely strongly that substantial processing with various layers or combining several shots, moves the photograph away from real photography towards "digital ART". He used the term "slippery slope" which, to me at least, implies that all the layering, local enhancing, multiple shots, repairing and so forth to realize one's mental image and "make the picture" degrade the real photographic truth of the image. Essentially this, IMHO, is dismissive of most of the work of modern professional photography.
This reconstruction of the initial post serves purely to anchor this thread and make it comprehensible. I feel that the efforts of subsequent writers are important. We value them. So please forgive me for any innaccuracy I may have introduced here.
TomYi deleted his own post after others had contributed their efforts to this important subject.
In future we will safeguard against such damage to threads.
It is the policy of OPF to not remove photographers' professional posts, as this would be against the very purpose of this forum.
To make this thread coherent, here is my understanding, from memory of Tom's original very strong ideas that lead to this discussion.
Tom, who uses Photoshop Elements, I believe, and only to a limited extent, likes to get out from the cameras file the image with almost no "manipulation". I believe he uses Raw Shooter as his RAW processor. He feels extremely strongly that substantial processing with various layers or combining several shots, moves the photograph away from real photography towards "digital ART". He used the term "slippery slope" which, to me at least, implies that all the layering, local enhancing, multiple shots, repairing and so forth to realize one's mental image and "make the picture" degrade the real photographic truth of the image. Essentially this, IMHO, is dismissive of most of the work of modern professional photography.
This reconstruction of the initial post serves purely to anchor this thread and make it comprehensible. I feel that the efforts of subsequent writers are important. We value them. So please forgive me for any innaccuracy I may have introduced here.
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